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Twitter Crushes RSS with Personality

closetgeekshow 14y ago
i don't use rss to follow people, i use it to follow output from particular publications and blogs i'm interested in. i don't think i'd gain any usefulness by displaying an avatar pic, i'm just trying to stay up to date on the happenings in the various affinity networks i'm part of or peripherally interested in.
- k3n 14y ago
  Agreed, RSS is for actual information consumption while Twitter is for '@seeing and #beingseen #selfpromotion please RT! #lame @rss_will_always_be_better_for_objective_content'.
codva 14y ago
I think the real reason why Twitter crushes RSS is that RSS is an open standard that is hard to monetize. Twitter is increasingly a closed ecosystem that only Twitter can make money on, which give Twitter plenty of motivation to throw it's resources into a closed network and not an open standard.
locopati 14y ago
Who says RSS is fading? Are twitter posts of years ago accessible via a simple link as are links obtained via RSS? These are honest questions and not snark.
- codva 14y ago
  Twitter sort of hides the RSS links, and last time I checked did not provide any documentation on how to find them. But they are there and you can access Twitter feeds via RSS once you figure out the URL pattern.
  - ojiikun 14y ago
    Twitter used to have a link on every public/open profile to an RSS feed of tweets. They removed the link about a year or two back. Worse yet, about a week or two ago, the feeds went dead. This used to be the feed for DEVOPS_BORAT: https://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/167499429.rss https://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/167499429.rss Those links have since gone dark. An alternative format still (sorta) works: https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.rss?screen_name=DEVOPS_BORAT https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.rss?screen_... Per twitter devs, though, all RSS feeds are going away some time very soon. They want you reading all your tweets under their control, not in your feed reader.
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k3n 14y ago
lol, so using the term c!rclejerk automatically makes my comment "dead"? Sheesh.

i don't use rss to follow people, i use it to follow output from particular publications and blogs i'm interested in. i don't think i'd gain any usefulness by displaying an avatar pic, i'm just trying to stay up to date on the happenings in the various affinity networks i'm part of or peripherally interested in.

k3n 14y ago
Agreed, RSS is for actual information consumption while Twitter is for '@seeing and #beingseen #selfpromotion please RT! #lame @rss_will_always_be_better_for_objective_content'.

codva 14y ago

I think the real reason why Twitter crushes RSS is that RSS is an open standard that is hard to monetize. Twitter is increasingly a closed ecosystem that only Twitter can make money on, which give Twitter plenty of motivation to throw it's resources into a closed network and not an open standard.

locopati 14y ago

Who says RSS is fading? Are twitter posts of years ago accessible via a simple link as are links obtained via RSS? These are honest questions and not snark.

codva 14y ago
Twitter sort of hides the RSS links, and last time I checked did not provide any documentation on how to find them. But they are there and you can access Twitter feeds via RSS once you figure out the URL pattern.
- ojiikun 14y ago
  Twitter used to have a link on every public/open profile to an RSS feed of tweets. They removed the link about a year or two back. Worse yet, about a week or two ago, the feeds went dead. This used to be the feed for DEVOPS_BORAT: https://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/167499429.rss https://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/167499429.rss Those links have since gone dark. An alternative format still (sorta) works: https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.rss?screen_name=DEVOPS_BORAT https://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.rss?screen_... Per twitter devs, though, all RSS feeds are going away some time very soon. They want you reading all your tweets under their control, not in your feed reader.

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k3n 14y ago

lol, so using the term c!rclejerk automatically makes my comment "dead"? Sheesh.